Which of the following is a characteristic of 'Pteridophytes'?
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is option 4 i.e. They neither produce flowers or seeds.
- Pteridophytes are vascular plants and have leaves (known as fronds), roots and sometimes true stems, and tree ferns have full trunks.
- Examples include ferns, horsetails and club-mosses. Fronds in the largest species of ferns can reach some six metres in length.
- They are autotrophs, as they make their food by themselves.
- They reproduce through both sexual and asexual modes (vegetative propagation)